The Social Benefits Study for Priority Amendments to the Law on Social and Child Protection

The Study proposes the priority, financially sustainable social cash transfers/benefits amendments to the Law on Social and Child Protection. It is entirely based on the real evidence-based data and simulations generated through Social Welfare Information System (SWIS) – e-Social Card, and it offers an overview of social transfers, and it covers the following major issues: Who are the citizens in social (financial) need who are not eligible for family allowance due to rigorous legal requirements? By analysis of the rejected applications (non-eligible) it determines so-called exclusion error from the social protection system. Those are citizens who consider themselves to be in social need and apply for the cash transfer (means-tested) but are rejected based on the legally set restrictive eligibility criteria (assets, income). The last resort work-unable beneficiaries’ caseload was also analysed for the first time. The Study provides multiple cash transfers analysis, analysis of the financial (means-tested) situation of personal disability allowance beneficiaries and trends of one-off cash assistance as of an indicator of the crises impact.